Re: *-je/o- [was: IE thematic presents...]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> > > I don't know whether this is true for German because
> > > somehow I think that that language has a lot of tricks
> > > up its sleeve but you're right about French, as well
> > > as Japanese. This paper relates to the topic of what
> > > is termed 'zero derivation':
> >
> > What disqualifies "klaxonner".
>
> Its loneliness.

You are probably right that this is a rare phenomenon in French.
Another famous word is "limoger", send a person to a far off place
where he can't make much damage; incompetent generals were sent to
Limoges far from the front.

By the way, have you read Politiken today?
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=396716&TemplateID=193

Lars